Review pile
Private for now
Society and economics.
Consumerism, retirement, healthcare, technology, politics, and culture. Some of this is useful, but it needs careful editing before it belongs in public.
Free archive / essays / working notes
Useful ideas, cleaned up.
This is where I am turning years of teaching material, essays, drafts, books, and half-finished arguments into a readable pile. It is free because usefulness matters more to me than publication.
Evolution, randomness, and the drunkard's walk.
The way I came to understand entrepreneurship was not through the tidy mythology of the business plan, the heroic founder, or the single brilliant idea. It was through evolution and randomness. Businesses, like organisms and ideas, survive through variation, selection, adaptation, and accident.
The entrepreneur's job is not to predict the future with false precision, but to stay alive long enough to learn from the market, to run real experiments, to notice unexpected openings, and to adapt before extinction arrives. That is why I have always returned to the image of the drunkard's walk: success in entrepreneurship is not a straight line from plan to outcome, but a wandering path shaped by action, chance, customers, timing, cash flow, and the unintended consequences of decisions made under uncertainty.
There is another layer to this idea. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit priest and philosopher, called the collective space of human thought the Noosphere. Ideas live in brains, books, drawings, software, and now the Internet and AI. They evolve like organisms, but much faster, because the speed of idea reproduction is the speed of communication. Entrepreneurship is one practical corner of that larger system: ideas mutate, markets select, and companies either adapt or disappear.
The piles.
Teaching
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Entrepreneurial Action.
My original textbook for MBA entrepreneurship students, written from Babson, company-building, and years of mentoring entrepreneurs.
Core theory
Read the draft thread
Evolution and randomness.
The thread that connects Darwin, the Noosphere, markets, invention, survival, and the strange path by which companies actually find their way.
AI and software
Read the essay
From SaaS to OaaS.
A current essay about AI, software, outcomes, open source, and what customers may really be buying.
Fiction
Open the book page
Resurrection.
A story about AI and love that also carries the Noosphere thread into memory, identity, and what it means to bring someone back.
Coming next
Browse the threads
Business essays.
Corporate innovation, marketing, categories, pricing, search selling, venture capital, and the ways small companies survive long enough to get lucky.
Entrepreneurial Action.
This is my original entrepreneurship textbook, written for my MBA students and shaped by Babson, mentoring, and building companies. I am making it available as a free PDF because it was always meant to help people act, test, sell, adapt, and learn their way toward a real business.
Threads I am consolidating.
Survival is a strategy.
If the catalytic event cannot be scheduled, the first rule is survival. Cash flow, credibility, customer contact, and small wins keep a company alive long enough for randomness to become opportunity.
Search selling.
The first sales conversations are not only attempts to close transactions. They are how a small company discovers the business it may actually be in, what customers value, and which path is worth following.
Marketing is the startup problem.
Startups often think the hard part is the product. The archive keeps saying the harder problem is the product-market meeting: attention, trust, language, timing, category, and the courage to keep revising the offer.
Thought evolves faster than biology.
Teilhard de Chardin gives me a way to connect invention, software, entrepreneurship, and AI. Ideas mutate and spread through people, books, networks, software, and now intelligent tools.
Technology changes the company.
Technology changes what can be built, how small teams organize, how customers are reached, and what students need to learn. That thread runs from signal processing to AI-assisted software work today.
Society, economics, and consumerism.
There is useful material here, but it needs more editing before it belongs in public. For now it stays as a review pile, not a raw dump.
How I am treating the archive.
The raw files include book drafts, essays, fiction, notes, correspondence, old fragments, PDFs, and personal material. I am not putting everything online. The public archive will be curated: useful ideas first, rewritten where needed, with personal correspondence and sensitive material kept out unless I deliberately choose otherwise.